Yuki Okuyama Photo Collection BEST BEFORE Yuki Okuyama

Introduction (from the publisher)
Yuki Okuyama, who continues to lead the creative scene of Japan, is the first client work collection for 12 years since his debut.

Since its debut in 2010, he has been vigorously publishing his works in numerous photobooks and exhibitions, and has been awarded the New Century Award for Photo and the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award.In recent years, Yuyuki Okuyama has supervised many popular MVs and TV commercials, and has led the current creative scene.

This book focuses on the “client work” that Okuyama has taken in parallel in parallel with the work production, and summarizes 12 years of work from debut to the present.It is a collection.

Collaboration with artists such as Yonezu Gen, Gen Hoshino, Mr.Children, Radwimps, Aimyon, Masaharu Fukuyama, Sakanaction, advertising photos such as Pocari Ski, NTT DOCOMO, etc., the main visual of the taiga drama “Kirin Guru”In addition to world -class magazines such as VOGUE US, editorial work such as “GINZA”, “Switch”, and “Hanatsubaki”, icons that symbolize the times such as Suzu Hirose, Masaki Sugata, Yuri Hirate, Nana Komatsu, and Tsubasa Honda.The quality and quantity of the work, such as portrait, are overwhelmed.

The recorded work was selected by Okuyama himself, and it became a masterpiece with more than 400 points and more than 500 pages.This is a book that tells the magnitude of the impact on the creative scene since Okuyama’s debut and the unique presence.

Facing the clients and subjects seriously, carefully and carefully, carefully and carefully considered ideas to the extremes, and arrived at the end of the trial and error, the crystal -like photographs are in the client work.”Advertising things” and “commercial ones” are clearly different, and they have the strength and personality that speaks as “photographic expressions”.In addition, Okuyama’s expression is full of superficial unity, such as color and texture, and is full of chaos, powerful, and innocent passion, as if a child was scattered.

From works created by experimental methods such as multiple exposure, emulsion lift, slow sinkro, collage, copy, light, etc., to document photos that cut out the definitive moment by taking advantage of instantaneous power.The style that is updated for each work beyond the genre is a business that can be done only because it is Okuyama, which thoroughly thoroughly pushed each time.

Okuyama’s work continues to leave a wide range of impacts.What is the “Okuyama -like” that is thickly penetrated there?With each page turned up, the reader will be attracted to the unique and humorous Okuyama world view and will have an overwhelming visual experience.

The title of this book “Best Before” is a word that means “expiration date”.
The seemingly ironic title was paradoxically in order to prove that the brilliance of the work recorded in this book does not fade forever.

Please look forward to this work, which can be a monument in visual expression since the 2010s.
Contents introduction (from “BOOK” database)
Yuki Okuyama, who continues to lead the creative scene of Japan, is the first client work collection for 12 years since his debut.